THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE! GOVERNOR HORATIO SEYMOUR. Elected by ten thousand majority, November 1862. SURROUNDED BY HIS FRIENDS.

Complete Explanation:A dramatic apotheosis, commemorating Horatio Seymour's 1862 election as governor of New York. In the center is a bust portrait of Seymour with the word "Union" below. Above him in the sky is Liberty or Columbia, borne aloft by an American eagle clutching an olive branch in his talons. She holds a fasces and a staff with a liberty cap. The eagle is flanked by two putti trumpeting the news.

In the lower portion of the picture are three scenes, perhaps having associations for Seymour's heavily Catholic constituency. In the center men in shackles bow and look upward imploringly toward Seymour; at left a group of men are baptized in a river; and at right soldiers in medieval dress, with crosses on their tunics, pursue a man and a woman with a babe in her arms.